NEW YORK — After coughing up a big lead in the middle of the game, Otto Porter Jr. and his Georgetown teammates showed off all the attributes that make them a championship threat this March.

Porter scored 18 points and the fifth-ranked Hoyas advanced to the Big East tournament semifinals by pulling away from Cincinnati for a 62-43 victory Thursday.

"I want to say the first three, four possessions of the second half, we looked extremely flat. But then we turned it up at the defensive end. We started getting stops, which then helped our offense," Georgetown coach John Thompson III said. "For the most part, this group doesn't get rattled."

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